"Ratings" style

• To install the style: unzip Ratings.zip archive to "\Styles\" subfolder of your FeedDemon cache folder (menu: File > Open Cache Folder)
• To only update installed style: unzip Ratings-update.zip archive to "\Styles\" subfolder of your FeedDemon cache folder (menu: File > Open Cache Folder)
• This version of the style is FD 1.10 compliant, so if you experience problems with its eralier version, please update.
• Haven't you got an impression that it's much easier to subscribe any feed (especially blog) than to unsubscribe it ? How to judge whether a feed is still worth reading or not ? Well, you can rely on you memory, but with 200+ feeds it's not as easy task. Therefore I decided not to bother Nick with another feature request and I've created a simple rating system for feeds I subscribe in FeedDemon - the "Ratings" style.
• Well, it's in early beta stage so it can do only simple things, but I wanted to share it with you. Here is how it works, please read all the following notes:
• so for me it works as follows: if a feed's ratings drops below a certain threshold (e.g: 0.05) i remove/unsubscribe this feed. What is more, I distributed feeds/channels according to their ratings to different channel groups (for priority reading or update frequency reasons).
• another way of rating a feed is your own typed description, list of reasons you need that feed. With current version of FeedDemon you can make notes about a feed only in its title. That's hardly enough. So in "Ratings" style there is a description / memo / note field, where you notes are stored permanently
• this style works (in its current version) only in channel newspaper mode and single newsitem mode. It doesn't work in group newspaper mode yet.
• all stored data is put into MS database "ratings.mdb" in "\Style\" folder.
• you can see a view of that database on second screenshot
• if you want to reset all data in that database, simply reinstall the style (unzip it again)
• I suppose there are "MS Data Access Components" on your system, which are needed for connecting to "ratings.mdb" file (otherwise download MDAC from Microsoft)
• created for my own needs, shared for inspiration and as a proof-of-concept (of a database-based style)
• this is beta release of the style, so it can have bugs
• feel free to do whatever you want with this style
• screenshot(s):